English Fiction: Victorian

Introducing life writing - autobiography, biography, travel writing, memoir, diary, letter as sub – genres-evolution of the art of life writing - difference between biography and autobiography literary qualities of life writing.

Unit 1

Introduction to Victorian Fiction-Characteristics-Major Writers.

Unit 2

Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility.

Unit 3

Charles Dickens: Christmas Carol.

Unit 4

George Eliot: Silas Marner.

Unit 5

Thomas Hardy: Under the Greenwood Tree.

1. Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility. Maple Press, 2014.
2. Dickens, Charles:Christmas Carol. Fingerprint Publishing, 2015.
3. Eliot, George: Silas Mariner. Scholastic India, 2001.
4. Hardy, Thomas:Under the Greenwood Tree.Wordsworth Editions Ltd; New edition, 1994.

1. David, Deirdre. (Ed). The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, CUP, London.
2. A Companion to the Victorian Novel, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, (Eds) Patrick Brantlinger, William Thesing, Wiley.
3. The Nineteenth Century Novel: A Critical Reader, Stephen Regan, Routledge.
4. Williams, Raymond. The English Novel: From Dickens to Lawrence.Vintage Digital, 2013.
5. Websources.